The author of those things in the Ming Dynasty, at the end of this book, talked about an atypical character in this book, Xu Xiake, after countless big events, but finally chose an alternative Xu Xiake as the ending of the book.
Xu Xiake is an alternative, because he did not participate in the imperial examination, and his ancestor was implicated in the Tang Bohu case and specially instructed his descendants not to take the imperial examination.
So Xu Xiake fell in love with tourism and mountain climbing, the mountain is there, there is always an inexplicable impulse to conquer, climb over the mountains, it has become Xu Xiake's goal, and the vast majority of scholars, the imperial examination is the highest mountain in their hearts, and this mountain has been standing high there since the first day you are literate.
There is no doubt that there are very few people who can successfully climb the mountain of the imperial examination, and there are very few people who can successfully climb the imperial examination.
The fish leaping over the dragon gate sounds very beautiful, the past you are the dragon, and if you can't jump over, it is a dead end, so in that era, the imperial examination was the only way, you have no other choice, if you don't live, you die.
The college entrance examination is also a cruel competition in nature, the form is the same as the imperial examination, but the degree of tragedy is far less than that of the imperial examination, especially the level of the college entrance examination with many scores, different universities can start a wonderful life.
But even so, every Chinese, from the day they became sensible, was instilled that they should study hard, take the college entrance examination, and be admitted to university, and go to school for nothing else, just to get into college.
Especially now that basic education is developed, as soon as everyone is born, the path they walk is fixed, and the ranking of the school study exam, and the last trembling is the examination room of the college entrance examination.
Exams and rankings are the mountains in the hearts of every Chinese from ancient times to the present, and his shadow has been hanging over you since you understood things, and there is no way to avoid it.
Some people have turned over, life is a smooth road, and some people no matter how hard they try, they just can't turn over, and the road of life still has to go, but it will be full of thorns.
Now the depreciation of academic qualifications, but it does not mean that going to school is useless, it is just not as shining as before, but if you have a little common sense, from ancient times to the present, reading and going to school is the basic path to success.
Those who say that reading is useless may be able to find a few evidences, but this cannot shake the status of reading in the minds of the Chinese people, and we are a person who values reading more than any other nation in the world.
The mountains are there, whether you like it or not, it is there, bravely climb the mountains, overcome yourself and become the best version of yourself, perhaps the greatest meaning of the existence of the mountain.
Especially in modern society, our choices are far greater than those in ancient society, even if the mountains really can't be crossed, we still have a lot of choices, as long as we work hard, we can live a lot.
Mountains can produce shadows, but also can generate motivation, there are mountains in the heart, which is both pressure and signposts are guides, everyone has a mountain of their own in their hearts, overcome it, you can get out of the past self.